Housman John E (54 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition Thus. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang 1990. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 1556701446. First US edition. "In this book trees grow from seedling and sapling, through maturity and fruiting to the falling, with reflections in poetry and prose". Glossy pictorial boards, unpaginated, color illustrated throughout. Fine copy in Fine jacket. clph. Cherry Denman (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 307 pp. (viii) Trade paperback with French flaps. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Stephen Snider. This anthology contains: Dulse by Alice Munro; True Trash by Margaret Atwood; An Adventure on Island Rock by Lucy Maude Montgomery; Poaching with My Old Guy by Paul Quarrington; The Little White Girl by Joyce Marshall; The Rooted Lover by Laurence Housman; Shellfish for Monsieur Chabre by Emile Zola; The Thrill of the Grass by W. P. Kinsella; Storm Glass by Jane Urquhart; Mouche by Guy de Maupassant; Shoo Fly Dyck by John Kooistra; The Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit; The Country by Ivan Turgenev; The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde; Viper's Bugloss by Janice Kulyk Keefer; The Town of the Little People by Sholom Aleichem; Moon Prayer by Roch Carrier; Patio Talk; and Vines by Lesley-Anne Bourne; Telemachus Friend by O. Henry; The Circus by Katherine Anne Porter; Why I Stick to the Farm by Peter McArthur; A Girl's Story by David Arnason; Oranges by Alphonse Daudet; The Old Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing by Stephen Leacock; The Mysteries of Radio by Robert Benchley; and Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer. Size: 8vo. Stephen Snider; (illustrator). Book.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Special Edition. Privately printed by S. A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press. A VG 8vo hardcover (approx 5 inches by 8.25 inches tall) with pasted pictorial paper covers and no dust jacket as issued. Missing its slipcase. Tanning in the gutters of the endpapers An otherwise clean and securely bound copy with uncut fore and bottom page edges. While not dramatic, the spine is slightly sunned--i.e. a lighter shade of olive green than either the pasted cover illustrations or the borders or the boards. NOT an ex-library copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dj: avg or better. 4 closed tears top edge, 1" or less. 1 closed tear b edge 1/4". book: fine. attractive red boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First printing book dedicated "to females all: Big, Little, and Middle." Brown cloth book with illustration to cover in black; black lettering to spine. Book is Near Fine with pages crisp as new, no previous owner name, very nice; a little dust to endpapers. Profusely illustrated by Evaline Ness. Dust jacket with a little wear and discoloration, very little wear, original price intact on front flap. Please see photos. Evaline Ness (illustrator). Not Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Former owner's signature on inside of front cover. First American edition. Price-Clipped. Pages are clean. Book is tight. Jacket's condition is fair with one tear on front cover and one tear on back cover. Jacket has edge wear. Here in its essentials is the intimate life of A.E. Housman, perhaps the most reserved and reticent of modern poets.…

Condition: Fair. 1952. First Published. 248 pages. Yellow dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to boards. Dents to edges. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Noticeable tanning to spine. Foxing to panels. Some rubbing to surfaces.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A few small chips from jacket edges, jacket price clipped. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1946 Hard Cover. xii, 121 pp. A collection of wisdom from various literary greats such as Charles Dickens, Francis Bacon, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1921. 6pp. Augener's Editions, No. 15647. Light wear to edges, light soiling to covers. Minor inscription to front cover. An excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Bookplate tipped in on the front inner board and signed by Robin Castell on the title page. No edition stated. Grey top page edges. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 82 pages. There is gilt on the spine of the book and on the front cover. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding has neatly been repaired. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

HARD BACK OFF WHITE MULT. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: SOILED DJ. General wear: soiled boards, torn front DJ edge B&W and near gilt images DATE PUBLISHED: 1966 EDITION: 176. BEARDSLEY, HOUSMAN, ETC (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** A FEW marks on text - My shelf location WE-D-67*BRAD.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . 1952, ex lib bookplate, contents clean no markings, light wear to boards, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Publisher's price sticker on the front cover, light toning and light bumping to the corners, else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "47187c.".

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Price sticker on the front cover, light toning and light bumping to the corners, very good or better. For high voice and piano (with pedal marks). Plate number, 44377.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Light toning and light bumping to the corners, else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "47187c.".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Later printing. Quarto. Single bifolium making four pages. Price stamp on the front cover, light edgewear, and light soiling to the exterior, very good or better. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "B.&H. 17053.".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Sheet music. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Light toning and light bumping to the corners, else near fine. For low or medium voice and piano (with pedal marks). Plate number, 36252.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 8pp. Stapled wrappers. Some light edgewear, and publisher's price sticker on the front cover, else near fine. For voice and piano. Two songs from the song cycle *We'll To The Woods No More.*.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing (with corrections). Spine of jacket a bit tanned. Name in ink on front paste-down.

Condition: Good. 1ST. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 204 pages. Mainly white paperback covers bronzed to spine. Light bronzing to edges with some foxing, wear to covers' corners the tips of which curl slightly, light wear to spine-ends. Ink notes to rear end-paper o/w pages clean, sound and unimpeded.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Cambridge University Press, 1962, 2nd.prtg., (corrected), 12mo., cloth, 204pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, some pencilling, G+ $.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vinyl LP. Poems by Thomas Hardy, A E Housman, W B Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, W H Davies, Walter d la Mare, John Masefield, Edward Thomas, D H Lawrence, James Elroy Flecker, Andrew Young, Siegfried Sassoon, Edwin Muir, Edith Sitwell. Aside from Edith Sitwell, poems are read by other poets such as C. Day Lewis. Descriptive notes are missing. Jacket has wear along side and bottom edge. No international orders. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Lovers of Housman's poetry and admirers of his scholarship have long been aware, from the Introductory Lecture of 1892 and The Name and Nature of Poetry, 1933, that he was also master of a highly individual prose style; and others besides classical students have relished the pungency of the famous preface to his edition of Manilius. Here, in addition to these, is a selection of Housman's writings, both scholarly and general, gathered from periodicals and other out-of-the-way sources, which decisively confirms his reputation as a prose stylist. The prefaces, the adversaria and the reviews, in particular, give the layman an idea of the precision and the penetration of exact scholarship. Housman's comments and judgements on other men illuminate his own nature: withdrawn, austere, even crusty, yet gentle with the unassuming; ruthless in exposure of arrogance and pretension.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.